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Historian at CCNY’s Black Studies Department Emmanuel Lachaud says, “If I really want to have a good writing day, I take the train an hour and fifteen minutes to somewhere that I love. I like to call it the quietest place in New York City.” Lachaud tells us about the Center for Fiction Library and Pierre Toussaint.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.Einstein theorized that at the center of a black hole, the laws of time and space break down. But quantum theory might allow researchers to further our understanding of the unknown.And an underground water source that feeds rivers in the Pacific Northwest could be much larger than previously thought.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.We may not remember our earliest days, but that doesn’t mean that infants aren’t making memories.And in a challenging time for higher education, we’ll speak with the college presidents of two merging institutions.

Time to explore a radical new idea shaking up our understanding of the cosmos: what if dark matter doesn’t exist at all? Some European astronomers propose that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may have already collided once in the distant past—a theory that challenges long-held beliefs about gravity and the mysterious dark matter thought to hold galaxies together. Instead, they point to a bold alternative called MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics), which suggests gravity behaves differently on cosmic scales. If true, this could rewrite everything we know about the structure and evolution of the universe.

“The disease, the people believed, was caused by sorcery and could be cured by sorcery,” says bioethicist Robert Klitzman. And by “the people” he does not mean RFK Jr. but a stone age tribe in New Guinea. Klitzman also tells us about hospital chaplains, the pool in central park and a stone axe head.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, April 26th, 2025

(Airs 04/24/25 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes about the status of budget negotiations, whether the lawmakers will have to come back in a special session to deal with cuts from the federal government, and much more.

On this week's 51%, we chat with Minnesota Law Professor Jill Hasday about her book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality.

(Airs 04/25/25 & 04/27/25 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette, Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of the Saratogian, and WAMC News Director Ian Pickus. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Barbara and Ian talk about WAMC taking a stand on behalf of open meetings, why the top producer at 60 Minutes says he can’t do the job anymore, and much more.

(Airs 04/18/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: We’ll take a look at the current trade war with China and it’s impact on New York, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik wants the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the Saratoga Springs City School District, and cuts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are impacting food banks across the country and in the Hudson Valley.